Garment-hook.



W. LONDON.

GARMENT HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 28, 1912.

1,100,588, Patented June 16,191 L Wyn tunes COLUMBIA PIANOGIIAFH CO..WMHINOTON, D c.

WILLIS LONDON, or FRANK IN, KENTUCKY.

GARMENT-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 16, 1914.

Application filed August 28, 1912. Serial No. 717,483.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIS LONDON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Franklin, in county of Simpson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists of an improved hook particularly designed for use as a garment fastener.

The object is to provide a hook for use in connection with an eye so constructed that the eye may be very readily entered into the hook and will be held against accidental or other than manual disengagement from the hook, and yet may be very readily disengaged when desired.

A. further object is in the provision of such a hook so constructed that the ends of the wire from which it is formed are protected from snagging or becoming caught in the goods to which the eye is attached, thus making the hook equally desirable on either heavy fabric or upon lace and other finer fabrics.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts which will behereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings :-Figure 1 is a view in perspective, Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation, Fig. 3 is a longitudinal ver tical sectional view, and Fig. t is a horizontal section on the line 4-i of Fig. 1.

From the drawings it will be seen that the invention is made from a single piece of wire producing two thread eyelets, 1, 1, and two parallel bars 2, 2, having formed at their outer ends small thread eyelets 3, 3, and then the parallel bars are bent upwardly forming the bill t of the hook, the bill overlying the parallel bars. One end of the wire after forming one of the eyelets 1 extends between the bars 2, and is provided with a hump 5, which extends upwardly and projects between the parallel wires of the hill 4. The free end of the wire 6 extends from the hump between the bars 2 to the ends thereof, and then upwardly and between the wires forming the hill 4, and overlies the hump 5 and is slightly curved upward as at 7 at its outermost end to form an easy entrance for the eye 8 (which can be of any approved form) when the eye is inserted beheath the bill of the hook.

It is to be noted that the slope or pitch of the hump is not as great at the entrance to the bill as is the pitch of the hump at its outer end or to the surface of the hump which the eye must take in being removed from the bill. This forms an obstruction to the easy removal of the eye, and thereby prevents the eye becoming disengaged from the hook except when it is intended to withdraw the eye from the hook.

Another feature is in extending the free or extreme end of the wire 6 over the hump 5. Then the extreme end of the wire 6 overlies the hump, there is no obstruction to the entrance of the eye to the hook, as the eye will be drawn between the outer end of the bill and hump, and thence beneath the extreme end of the wire 6- and between the hump.

With the hooks now in use which are in any way similar to my invention as shown and described, the hump which holds the eye in the hook comes up in close proximity to the bill of the hook and the eyelet is prevented from accidental displacement by the closeness of the hump to the bill without employing the free end of the wire beyond the hump in any connection; or this free end of the wire beyond the hump is brought over between the loop of the wires forming the bill and a second hump extending down into proximity with the first hump is provided. By theuse of the first-mentioned structure, all movement to permit of the passage of the eye into the book must be through the hump, and this causes the free end of the wire to project from the outer contour of the hook to catch in the goods. With the second form, the free end itself is forced out by the pressure exerted against the hump thereon, in the passage of the eye into the hook. With my form of hook, as better illustrated in Fig. 3, the eye engages with the bill of the hook and with the hump on the central member. This forces the central member away from the bill and brings the free end 7 into a position where it engages with the eye. In-this way, the free end of the central member is always within the outer contour of the hook and cannot possibly catch on the goods, and at the same time the eye may be readily entered into the hook and is held against accidental displacement,

Having fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A garment hook adapted for use with an eye, said hook formed from a single length of wire and having the usual body portion, thread eyelets and bill, one of the free ends of the wire bent back to extend between the members of the body portion, a hump formed on the central member thus provided beneath the entrance to the bill of the hook and extending in close proximity thereto, the free end of the wire beyond the hump looped around and back into the loop of the bill and at its extreme end bent outwardly all of said parts so constructed and arranged that on its entrance to the hook the eye engages with the hump and the bill, drawing said free end into the loop of the bill where the eyelet engages with the curved portion, and springing said curved portion from its proximity to the hump passes on into the loop of the hook where it is held against accidental displacement by the hump.

2. A garment hook adapted for use with an eye, said hook formed from a single length of wire and having the usual body portion, thread-eyelets and bill, supplemental thread-eyelets formed in the body adjacent the loop to the bill, one of the free ends of said wire bent back to extend between and parallel to the members of the the loop to the bill, one of the free ends of said wire bent back to extend between and parallel to the members of the body portion forming a central member, a hump formed in the central member at the entrance to the loop and extending in close proximity to the bill, the free end of the central member beyond the hump bent to extend in the same general curve as the bill portion and to lie normally within the loop of the bill, said central member at its extreme end curved outwardly, the closest proximity of said curved portion and the hump being at a point beyond the extreme end of the central member and the apex of the hump, the slope of the hump on the entrance to the loop of the hook of less pitch than the slope opposing the displacement of the eye from the loop and the loop of the central member extending beyond the loop between the body portion and the bill so that all pressure will be sustained by the main members of the hook and the central port-i011 will not be strained from its proper relation.

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

XVILLIS LONDON.

Witnesses:

FRANK RIEDER, J NO. A, KoHLHEPr.

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